New paper! Values such as openness, transparency, collaboration, clarity about conflict of interests have been promoted by women for *decades*, and now we have reframed this around the branding of 'open science' that we start to take them seriously. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Interesting paper on how publication metrics distort research effort. The author exploits a reform in Thailand in 2019, which nudges researchers to publish in Q1 rank journals. Bunching at the cutoff shows that researchers follow incentives, at the expense of quality docs.iza.org/dp18680.pdf

We are doing it again: thanks to @aufdroeseler.bsky.social and #CDSC, there will be a 2nd round of reproduction games in Münster. These will also see the reproduction of PolSci papers, hence: don't hesitate to register, #PolSci / #SocSci scholars from Münster and beyond!

@jamiecummins.bsky.social has made RegCheck even sleeker! Try it out and let us know what you think!

Today we launch the first stable release of RegCheck: v1.0.0. RegCheck makes it easier and quicker to compare study registrations to published papers for consistency - something we know is important in principle, but rarely done in practice. A 🧵 on what's new: regcheck.app

„In München wurde im vergangenen Jahr ein Heim eröffnet, das ausschließlich für wohnungslose Männer bestimmt ist, die berufstätig sind. Dort leben Lager- und Fabrikarbeiter, Lieferfahrer, Wachleute, Bauarbeiter, Verkäufer.“ Was für eine unglaublich wichtige Recherche www.zeit.de/2026/30/wohn...

Great to see that the future for Regcheck is bright. The tool uses LLMs to compare PAP with published study

Genuinely interested in your views: What is the future of teaching statistical programming language for data science in the age of AI? Will we even still teach programming R or Python?

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If you have any questions about this job, let me know! It is a great opportunity and very important work!

AWS says Mechanical Turk will no longer accept new customers and that it is placing the crowdsourcing service in maintenance, signaling its future retirement (Simon Sharwood/The Register) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

People who are hostile online are also hostile offline -> these people are higher in status-seeking needs This was observed in 30 countries (N=15,202). It suggests that online hostility is a form of status seeking. Keep this in mind when someone is trolling you online www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 New preprint out! 🚨 We’ve spent years assuming liberals and conservatives prioritize fundamentally different moral values—and designing persuasive messages based on that assumption. Our data suggest there's more to the story, and that making that assumption can backfire.

Scientific progress is improving research practices. Preregistered large scale studies are now the highest quality evidence we can get in empirical research. So we should work hard on best practices for them (Red Teams, Methodological Review Boards, etc). We will always need to keep improving!

🚨 Now out in PNAS In decision research, "talk is cheap." We show it isn't. Using LLMs to analyze participants' free-text explanations of their choices, we find verbal reports are a rich, scalable window into how people actually decide. 🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Led by Kamil Fulawka

Ja, veränderte Semesterzeiten wären aus unterschiedlichen Gründen eine gute Sache. Nein, auf Klimaanlagen kann man auch an Universitäten nicht verzichten; gelernt und gearbeitet wird da schließlich auch in der vorlesungsfreien Zeit.

I think things like this can be done in many places, my impression is that people ask for it too seldom. Sure 90 % say no but if you ask 100 you have 10 possible experiments.

Von allem, was ich seit der Veröffentlichung über das @freiheitsrechte.org Gutachten gelesen habe, ist dieses Interview @bijanmoini.de wohl das beste, informativste, ausgeglichenste. Wenn ihr nur eines zum Gutachten lesen wollt, dann empfehle ich dies: www.spiegel.de/panorama/jus...

Sehr interessant, was @bijanmoini.de zum AfD-Gutachten von @freiheitsrechte.org sagt. Z.B: SPIEGEL: Das heißt, Sie haben immer die für die AfD günstigste Rechtsauffassung gewählt? Moini: Ja, und zwar nicht nur bei der Bestimmung der verfassungsrechtlichen Vorgaben, sondern auch bei ihrer Anwendung.

Are preferences for authoritarian rule individual predispositions—or can they spread socially? Using field + survey experiments in the Norwegian Armed Forces, we show that openness to strongman rule can spread socially. American Journal of Political Science: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🧵 Introducing ReproAI, an author-facing agentic AI plugin for replication packages: reproai.org We built this tool to help authors prepare replication packages before submission, w/ @leoyangyang.bsky.social.

Die @freiheitsrechte.org hat über ein Jahr geprüft, ob die AfD verfassungswidrig ist und ein Gutachten erstellt. Das ist das Ergebnis:

The Department of Political Science at Aarhus University is hiring both Assistant Professors and Associate Professors. Assistant Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Associate Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Please share these opportunities with your networks!

📣 Verstärkung gesucht - bitte teilen! Mitarbeiter:in IT/KI (m/w/d) - Ausbau der institutseigenen KI-Infrastruktur - Vollzeit - unbefristet - E 12 TV-L BW - zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt - Arbeitsort: Mannheim - Bewerbungsfrist: 03.07.2026 Ausschreibung: 👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/deta...

How the European Central Right helped to defeat Orban www.foreignaffairs.com/hungary/how-...

What can surveys miss when respondents choose the same answer option? In this pre-print, we argue that public opinion research needs not only to know where respondents stand, but how they think. AI Conversational Interviewing is one way to make that observable at scale

Available now: Teaching Open Science, edited by Charlotte R. Pennington (@drcpennington.bsky.social) and Madeleine Pownall (@maddipow.bsky.social) Learn more: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97... Read a free sample chapter: doi.org/10.4337/9781...

"Left behind" and an undemocratic mind? Happy to see that my article on the link between perceived marginalization and democratic orientations is now out in @ejprjournal.bsky.social 🧵👇 Read the article here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Are you considering submitting a registered report to the @thejop.bsky.social (or another journal)? Feel free to approach me with questions at #EPSS2026 (I serve as the Special Editor for RRs at the journal)

Is the Microsoft Office Ribbon causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since Office 2007 was introduced nearly two decades ago.

Check for replications of a specific article or your entire Zotero library - it only takes a few seconds with our Zotero Replication Checker. Download it for free at forrt.org/flora-zotero/ @zotero.org @forrt.bsky.social

Check out the great program of the *1st Interdisciplinary Symposium on Meta Science for Methods Research* organized 31 August and 1 September in Zürich! Ton of cool speakers and meta-methodological reseach! crsuzh.pages.uzh.ch/msmr/program/ (registration still open)

Please help, EPSS attendees. The official EPSS reception is on Friday, right? What is this thing on Thursday in the official program on Thursday evening? #epss2026 @epssnet.bsky.social virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/75765/...

arXiv📈🤖 AI-Assisted Variance Reduction in Randomized Experiments By Arbour, Ben-Michael, Feller et al

#Pride2026 #DiversityInResearch At GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, we are committed to democracy and an open society. These values are reflected not only in our research, but also in our workplace culture. Let us continue to promote equality and celebrate diverse identites!

#ICA2026 was truly a blast in the beautiful city of Cape Town!! What better way to end the conference by announcing our June Scholar-in-the-Spotlight: @lisemarienassen.bsky.social! She is a postdoc at the University of Amsterdam. Read our interview with her here: www.icamobile.org/scholar-in-t...

I like this @thejop.bsky.social : "We are now implementing a system in which the editorial team has the right to not consider submissions from authors who have failed to review for the journal three or more times, when invited to do so by the editorial team."

Could there be a target trial that identifies the natural (in)direct effect? Yes, but it requires assumption that essentially mean we can turn back time.

Things that do not require mediation analysis: - effects of one treatment on multiple outcomes (causal exploration) - decide whether to intervene on the treatment on the mediator (comparing two total effects) - combined interventions on treatment and mediator (e.g., what if the mediator was fixed)

Now that's what I call a spicy opeing: Understanding mechanisms is not a research question.

Jetzt im Buchhandel und im Open Access verfügbar. Mit Beiträgen von u. a. @cccccca.bsky.social @yanaraschmacks.bsky.social @mariamuhle.bsky.social @tatjanasoeding.bsky.social Mit großem Dank an den @verbrecherverlag.bsky.social, das @kwi-essen.bsky.social und partner-in-crime Stefan Höhne.

Gino seems a clear case of a fraudster having been exposed with undeniable evidence. The effort required to produce that evidence for one person is staggering—likely six or seven figures in time, legal costs & expert labor. What does that imply about academia’s capacity to expose fraud at scale?

We're excited to launch J·ROR, the Journal of Research on Research. A new open-access home for research on how research is funded, organised, conducted, communicated, and evaluated. Our first editorial: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #ResearchOnResearch #MetaScience #OpenScience #STS

lol, what!? One of the weirder Social Forces book reviews ever I've seen. Going out on a limb and guessing Wimer has a negative view of Kenworthy's book?

Another one bites the dust. Please share among your networks. This movement is growing. #OpenAccess #AcaSky

Max Heckel ist Lehrer in Sachsen-Anhalt und warnt seine Schüler*innen vor der AfD. Damit verstößt er gegen das Neutralitätsgebot, findet das Schulamt und hat ihn abgemahnt. Er klagt dagegen und könnte einen Präzendenzfall schaffen in der Frage: Wie neutral muss Schule sein? taz.de/Neutralitaet...

Was ist Faschismus? Haben wir ihn schon? Im Feuilleton tobt gerade eine ziemlich heftig geführte Debatte über den Begriff. Wir empfehlen dazu als vertiefende Lektüre den Band "Was war Faschismustheorie?" hg. v. @mortenpaul.bsky.social. Leseprobe: www.verbrecherverlag.de/shop/was-war...

📢 We are pleased to announce that you can register NOW for our 5th Open Science Summer School! #OSSS26 🔗 Check out the official website: bit.ly/4wULxJi 📍 Munich & Zoom 🔥 Various keynotes and engaging, practical workshops ➡️ Apply before July 06 or register anytime for the public lectures!

There are some (non ICA) Comm journals offering Registered Reports: - European Journal of Health Comm (@ejhc.bsky.social) - Communication Research Reports - Computational Communication Research (@computationalcommunication.org) - Frontiers in Communication See: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...